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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind. Listener mail.

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Speaker 3: My name is Robert Lamb and I am Joe McCormick.

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Speaker 3: And today is Monday, the day of each week that

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Speaker 3: Any kind of message is fair game, but we especially

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Speaker 3: appreciate responses to recent episodes. If you have something interesting

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Speaker 3: you would like to add to a topic we've talked about,

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Speaker 3: Let's see, oh Rob, maybe to start off today? We

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Speaker 3: got several responses to I can tell you you threw

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Speaker 3: out a request there for listeners to get in touch

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Speaker 3: with their favorite Star Trek monsters, and listener Jeff did indeed,

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Speaker 3: do you want to do this one?

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Speaker 2: Sure? Sure, Jeff says, Hi, guys, just a quick response

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Speaker 2: to requests for Star Trek creatures. There was a species

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Speaker 2: called something like the Medusins in the original series. The

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Speaker 2: gag was that they were not a non hostile race,

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Speaker 2: but humans couldn't look directly at them without going mad.

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Speaker 2: The ambassador they sent to deal with them was physically blind,

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Speaker 2: that allowed her to quote unquote look at them without

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Speaker 2: how much they got into the biology of the creatures. Otherwise,

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Speaker 2: hope there's enough meat on the bone there for an episode.

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Speaker 3: Jeff ah Well, it, as is often the case with

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Speaker 3: creatures and situations from the original series, I feel like

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Speaker 3: this raises interesting philosophical questions, like about what it actually

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Speaker 3: means to look and what it means to see something,

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Speaker 3: That implies that like seeing is somehow different than just

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so the Meduicans. This is a great suggestion.

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Speaker 2: I ended up not covering the Meduicins in this first

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Speaker 3: Okay, This next message is in response to our episodes

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Speaker 2: I have one quick, quick additional Star Trek message to read.

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Speaker 2: This one came to us from Jim, and Jim also

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Speaker 3: Now that's a list of references. I don't know a

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Speaker 2: Yes, and I do remember the Horta, and in fact,

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Speaker 2: And if you would prefer to have those as an

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Speaker 3: Excellent. What's the short rundown on the Horta.

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Speaker 2: The Horta is silicone based, it lives underground. It bores

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Speaker 3: response to our series on artifacts made out of meteorite iron? Yeah? Okay,

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Speaker 3: doing well. I'm writing in response to your recent series

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Speaker 3: amazing about this meteorite is that, according to scientists, most

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Speaker 3: rite may be seven billion years old. Truly alien iron

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